Module 14: The South

Southern farmers who owned small farms of 50 to 200 acres were called

• tenant farmers.

• yeomen.

• rural farmers.

• plantation onwers.

TRUE or FALSE: The price of cotton changed from season to season.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Southern plantation owners traveled often to

• lower their operating costs.

• compare methods with other owners.

• ensure fair dealings with traders.

• supervise their buildings.

The work of most enslaved people was

• tending and harvesting crops.

• domestic work and childcared.

• tending livestock.

• blacksmithing.

TRUE OR FALSE: On a plantation, the overseer's job was to keep the plantation's financial records.

• TRUE

• FALSE

TRUE or FALSE: Slave holders could legally break and enslaved family apart.

• TRUE

• FALSE

One purpose of the slave codes was

• communication among slaveholdrs.

• prevention of slave rebellion.

• prevention of marriage among enslaved people.

• education for enslaved people.

The South lagged behind other parts of the country in literacy because

• the South valued only agricultural skills.

• not enough teachers would settle in the area.

• the South's population was spread over a wide area.

• reading was taught only in public schools.

TRUE or FALSE: Large extended families were not possible for enslaved African Americans.

• TRUE

• FALSE

TRUE or FALSE: The law passed in 1808 banning the import made slavery illegal in the United States.

• TRUE

• FALSE